packet loss inherently creates latency. packets must be re-sent (at the baseline cost of the additional ping latency to the other side) and your client is running with an out-dated world state. In addition, packet loss usually comes in bursts so you're losing all packets for an amount of time.
sure they could charge more, but the market wouldn't swallow it so they would sell less. if they could charge more for eggs, they would be doing so right now, for extra profit.
Okay, but that hasn't been true basically forever. The 15-minute (less?) Resident evil 2 demo comes to mind. I remember Rollercoaster Tycoon being a timed demo too.
Timed demos have been around forever even if you don't like the concept.
The tech industry is not doing much better. But in general, if you can find a job in tech vs. games, you'll make more money, have more stability, and be treated better.
This is an over-simplification of the problem. The root is two things, shareholders and also, shareholders.
During pandemic some sectors saw massive growth and that caused shareholders to be very happy. But now we have normal growth, still growth, but normal non pandemic growth. Shareholders see that as a bad thing, you aren't growing at the rate you were two years ago and that is causing us to make slightly less money now. This causes the executive team to miss their bonuses. (the microsoft CEO only got 48 million this year instead of the full 50 million)
The second part is that tech companies have learnt that when they lay off people, shares go up. There is no reasoning behind the vast majority of the layoffs aside from this - there isn't really a money shortfall (everyone preaches massive profits after all), in-fact companies like Microsoft are struggling with retaining talent as evident by their creative output the last decade. But share prices go up if you announce firings. So if you can fire the workers, share prices go up covering the only 5% growth instead of 10% growth 'fall' and you get your bonus.
Then there are companies that exist solely on investment, high interest rates this past year has caused the investment market to die off. no one can get their next round to cover development so small companies or stupid companies that shouldn't have ever existed (embracer) are struggling.
So maybe this comes from a place of ignorance. But America doesn't have anything here. Literally. The machines and optics are designed and made in Europe. The design libraries that are used to build chips out are licensed globally.
TSMC is the leading fab because they constantly invest huge amounts of money in the newest machines and tech (they don't develop) and they have excellent yield working with them thanks to a focus on procedures that prioritize yield over throughput.
There's no secret sauce here, China can and has managed to produce really surprisingly excellent chip fabs in the last few years. They can purchase the asml machines like anyone else can.
China must invade Taiwan if they want to be relevant in the tech sector 10 years from now.
this is outdated information, and if you are going to copy-paste it around you should fix and probably adjust it. china has reasons for wanting to "unify" Taiwan and it's not about TSMC, that would be a nice bonus. but it's really not about it and their tech sector is not reliant on it.
their tech sector does not use TSMC chips today, their own chip fabs are actually doing surprisingly well. which is the reason that the US has been trying to build up their own chip manufacturing for a while, china got good and TSMC's future isn't predictable.
the US isn't trying to move TSMC to US soil, they can't move the infrastructure, the majority of the people and (importantly) the location - all of which are what make TSMC special (the lithography machines are from europe and elsewhere). The US just wants options and industry in an unpredictable market where their biggest competitor has made significant ground
yes because they employ tax avoidance people in general and they make more money paying those people to avoid tax all over the place than if they were taxed so it's a net gain.
to be clear, they don't even know they are lobbying for tax on these things to be low. their people do it.
and again, to be clear, it's not the money we care about, its the other 995 million that we should be focusing on nixing.
They barely spend money on these things, it's worth understanding what billionaire really means. You could levey hundred percent taxes on these things and billionaires wouldn't even notice
This isn't a good article and makes bad connections.
The idea is that they are slashing jobs because ai will do everything, and that doesn't hold water. To start with, ai is a burgeoning technology without a solid foundation right now. These people are not being replaced at all, and to take advantage of ai, you need more teams to make more things to find the ai product that actually sticks.
The current layoffs are nothing to do with ai and everything to do with shareholders. High interest rates coupled with the post pandemic growth falloffs mean that shareholders aren't seeing value in tech shares like they used to. So, the executive teams are laying off workers to raise shares.
Every report about the switch 2 is that it's launching 6-9 months away. This has been true for the past three years at least. it's just 6-9 more months away everyone, forever 6-9 months away! please click the link!
Dragon Quest XI - I am a huge fan of the 8-bit and 16-bit DQ games. But I just couldn’t get into DQ11.The atrocious music probably didn’t help.
the (full price ofc) re-releases help with the music a lot. I got the game on release because its dragon quest of course I did, and put it down 12 hours or so in because I could not stand it anymore - mostly because of the blaring midi music.
picked up the re-release with orchestral music some years later and had a much better time with it. It's nowhere near the best of the series, But it's better than a fair few of them.
packet loss inherently creates latency. packets must be re-sent (at the baseline cost of the additional ping latency to the other side) and your client is running with an out-dated world state. In addition, packet loss usually comes in bursts so you're losing all packets for an amount of time.